YOU MAKE YOURSELF ANOTHER by Lucy Hannah Ryan (me!) is available now! Goodreads / storygraph

Who are you, really? That is the question at the heart of Lucy Hannah Ryan’s short story collection You Make Yourself Another, a visceral, tender, and elusive meditation on transformation in its many guises. Named for an insult hurled at Hamlet’s Ophelia, You Make Yourself Another blurs genre and gender lines to illuminate a state of sharp, queer flux. From a girl whose illness has her slipping between the veil of life and death to a grieving model on the path of self-destruction, from the mystery behind a teenager’s disappearance to a woman’s journey through bodily autonomy via strange metamorphosis, this collection haunts and hollows in equal measure.

If you do want a copy and can spare the cash please do consider ordering you make yourself another (half mystic) (Barnes and Noble) (Foyles) (thriftbooks) (booktopia) today! And if you do read please leave a kind review!

lamignonette:

raibura:

Best Female Artist Collab

Telephone, Beyoncé and Lady gaga

Beautiful liar, Beyoncé and Shakira

Can’t remember to forget you, Rihanna and Shakira

Fly, Rihanna and Nicki Minaj

Feeling myself, Beyoncé and Nicki Minaj

Bang bang, Jessie J Ariana Grande Nicki Minaj

Side to side, Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj

The boy is mine, Brandy and Monica

Lady marmalade, Pink lil Kim Mya and Christina Aguilera

Savage remix Megan the Stallion Beyoncé

Rain on me, Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande

Don’t call me angel, Miley Cyrus Lana del Rey Ariana Grande

dailyflicks:

X, dir Ti West (2022)

You don’t think I know who you really are? I saw what you did in the barn.

aromanticduck:

What was the first way you listened to music by yourself?*

Radio

Vinyl records

Cassette tapes

CDs

MP3 player/downloads

Streaming (e.g. spotify, youtube)

Other

*As in you deliberately putting on music you wanted to listen to, not things your parents/siblings etc played for you

Me: Comic books are an important and undervalued medium and are capable of telling stories in an almost uniquely collaborative and multi-layered way, as they build up over decades in a way so few canons ever have the opportunity to, growing and changing and mirroring society in ways not unlike fairytales and myths; being passed down among people who care enough and have an intense enough emotional connection to strive to keep these specific characters alive.

Comic books:

haveyouseenthisseries-poll:

Have you seen Red Dwarf (1988-present)

Yes

Partially

No, but I’ve heard of it

Never heard of it

counttwinkula:

counttwinkula:

hey did you know that uhh

• i. the monster’s body is a cultural body
• ii. the monster always escapes
• iii. the monster is the harbinger of category crisis
• iv. the monster dwells at the gates of difference
• v. the monster polices the borders of the possible
• vi. fear of the monster is really a kind of desire
• vii. the monster stands at the threshold… of becoming

oh shit i didn’t expect this to actually get notes lmao

these are all direct quotes from jeffrey jerome cohen’s “monster culture (seven theses)” (full pdf linked)
i highly encourage you to read it yourself!

that said, while i think cohen’s writing is evocative, it can be a little dense, so while i’m here, here’s my capsule summary (you can also hear me talk about this in the first episode of my podcast) (listen to @ghostswerepeopletoo)

• i. the monster’s body is a cultural body - The monster is a work of fiction to be analyzed through tools of literary and sociological theory.
• ii. the monster always escapes - As long as the cultural fear from which the monster stems persists, the monster will reappear in retellings, reimaginings, and sequels.
• iii. the monster is the harbinger of category crisis - Monsters defy binaries and challenge easy comprehension or categorization.
• iv. the monster dwells at the gates of difference - The monster represents the Other.
• v. the monster polices the borders of the possible - Tales of the monster exist to discourage unacceptable or taboo behaviors.
• vi. fear of the monster is really a kind of desire - Subjects can vicariously participate in the disruption of the social order through the monster.
• vii. the monster stands at the threshold… of becoming - Within the monster we find information about the self.

oldfilmsflicker:

new-to-me #831 - Censor

ratcity:

sound of the summer

pelopides:

MIA FARROW
ROSEMARY’S BABY, 1968

deadgirlsupremacy:

The Damion Scott / Sanford Green / Scott McDaniel art style was such a plague on 2000s comics everyone is so uglygod bless <3 Off model kings!

Like what do you MEAN this is Cissie Cassie and Anita?

dreamduality:

The Damion Scott / Sanford Green / Scott McDaniel art style was such a plague on 2000s comics everyone is so uglygod bless <3 Off model kings!

a-little-bit-oddish:

isn’t the world amazing. full of wonder. there’s bisexuals